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LIGHT FROM BEYOND 

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BY 

KATHESINE MARDON DAVIS 



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New York 
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Copyright, 1919, by 
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TO 

THOSE PEOPLE OF EARTH 

WHO HAVE PERCEIVED THE NEW DAY 

COMING IN ALL ITS GLORY 

AND ARE READY TO ACCEPT 

GOD'S NEW LIGHT 



LIGHT FROM BEYOND 



PUBLISHERS' PREFACE 






F this story had come to us 
through the usual chan- 
nels, we doubt if it would 
have had more than the attention we 
give to things we don't want. An 
Ouija board we always looked upon 
as something for children to play with. 
A story over an Ouija board — absurd ! 
In the latter part of February we 
were spending the evening with some 
friends. Somehow the talk got 
around to a recent article by Ella 
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Wheeler Wilcox in Cosmopolitan, 
then to Spiritualism, and finally to 
Ouija boards. We found that the 
latter were common in the neighbor- 
hood and we borrowed one. 

The wife of the sculptor to whom 
the board belonged could work it 
with more or less success, but for no 
one in our party would it work 
until Mrs. X. (Katherine Davis) 
placed her hands on it. Then it 
did work and in a most alarming 
way. It told some things that were 
most embarrassing to us all, and did 
not stop at profanity. But it did 
work and it was not pushed. 

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you?" asked Mrs. X. later on in the 
evening. 

Answer: "I will give it." 

Question: "When?" 

Answer: "Now." 

And that is how The Light from 
Beyond came to be written. 

The title, the author's name under 
which it was to be published, and 
every word in it were taken over the 
Ouija board, and no changes nor cor- 
rections have been made for that rea- 
son, other than such as the board 
itself instructed. Understand, please, 
this story was not written in one sit- 
ing, but dm'ing the evenings covering 
a period of about three weeks, 
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A word about Mrs. X. She is 

young, popular, an excellent wife 
and a successful mother. In other 
words, she is a normal, happy, 
healthy, human being, and she could 
not have conceived either consciously 
or, to our belief, subconsciously, the 
thoughts given to the world in this 
book. Possibly Sir Oliver Lodge or 
Conan Doyle, or someone specialized 
in this sort of thing can explain it. 
We cannot. 



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The officials were greatly puzzled 
by the mystery. Who could be re- 
sponsible? For Wells' peculiar the- 
ory seemed very illogical. He was 
acknowledged to be the world's most 
progressive scientist, but his explana- 
tion of the lost code messages was 
exceedingly startling to even the 
highest officials. Drilled in mathe- 
matics for several years, they refused 
to believe such a miracle could have 
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suddenly been Wells' good fortune 
to discover. 

You must remember scientists just 
eulogize when the ordinary mortal 
never seems to comprehend. Code 
messages sent by the Allies to 
Germany scarcely ever reached their 
destination. The strange fact was 
the Germans claimed they never re- 
ceived the armistice orders the Allies 
sent. 

When men responsible for the 
codes claimed they could not fathom 
the problem, the Allies sent for 
Wells. He seemed to be the only one 
who could possibly know anything 
about such a peculiar mystery. He 
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had the reputation of fathoming 
scientific problems other scientists 
could not undertake. His theory 
was that the mysterious lights seen 
in the sky, when messages of impor- 
tance were sent, held some signifi- 
cance — partly because the only time 
the lights were ever seen armistice 
orders were sent to Germany. 

Consequently, his theory was to 
concentrate on this peculiar light. 
The strangest part of this light 
seemed to be its brilliancy. The 
strangest colors fascinated Wells. 
He could see beauty in colors other 
people loathed. Men often said he 
had the world within when he started 
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out to find the secrets which the 
elements do not care to disclose. 
And they seldom do give any in- 
formation scientists do not struggle 
with for years. They guard their 
secrets very zealously from the 
world's prying eyes. 

The light could be seen plainly 
with a telescope. When particular 
colored lens were used red rays 
seemed to cause the white light to 
become dim. Just then a pretty ra- 
dium light, seen for the first time, 
entered the very way the red ray did. 
But the radium ray was not always 
in evidence. 

Next thing Wells knew the white 
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light seemed a small point of light 
which threatened to disappear alto- 
gether. 

"Light is life." Even the knowl- 
edge science has of light counts for 
little. Light is the Hfe of the 
world. Without it nothing could live. 
Just think how the light brings forth 
the flowers. The little bud becomes 
a full grown leaf under its bounty. 
All nature holds its face toward the 
light. Yet people who need it most 
shut themselves away from its rays. 
Light just generates electricity as 
it travels. Men could use millions of 
volts and never even scratch what 
exists. The amount is unlimited. 
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Light, however, is the power which 
makes electricity. Without doubt 
light wastes enough electricity to re- 
volve another world. This may be 
incomprehensible to people, but 
strange as it seems it is a fact. The 
rays are concentrated bits of 
light. 

Great lives have been sacrificed in 
efforts to discover what knowledge 
we have of the elements, but of the 
power of light rays we know practi- 
cally nothing. Light enters the small- 
est astral crevice. Hope people will 
understand when I tell them light 
travels so fast men know positively 
nothing of its speed. Lift your eyes 
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to God and eulogize the light when- 
ever you see the sunshine. 

Light could be used for several 
different things. Just, for example, 
take people that have brain fever. 
They see things which never existed 
so far as we know. However, every 
object they see actually does exist in 
some one of the planets. Light rays 
take them to these other worlds, but 
you don't realize why you see such 
things in delirium. Light can change 
your whole personality — in fact, just 
to show you why let me tell you the 
people you consider dead are living 
right around you in the light. They 
live with you and can see you just 
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as though they had bodies. They are 
your influence in most things. The 
Mght, because God wishes them to be 
hidden from your eyes, protects them 
from your vision, but they Hve just 
as you do. Perhaps some day very 
soon the veil may be lifted and people 
will never fear death again. 

This is another example of the 
power hght has. Have you been 
with anyone when they passed on? 
You should never disturb them by 
weeping. It makes the change very 
difficult for them. I went in one 
moment and it was almost impossible 
for me to realize where I was for a 
while. I was completely lost until a 
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former friend helped me. Then I 
knew, but I am right on earth except 
out of my former body, hving with 
people I care for and doing prac- 
tically the same work I did before. 
The saddest thing I have to contend 
with is people don't see me, conse- 
quently cannot beheve I am with 
them. So you see what light can do. 
The men in this war found it very 
difficult when they were called into 
the other life suddenly. There were 
so many we could not help them as 
soon as we should have. They were 
so helpless when shot to pieces, that 
it was necessary to have the older 
spirits to help them. Light is prac- 
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tically our food because we do not 
eat in this world. It is not necessary 
for the type of bodies we have. They 
do not require the same form of 
nourishment. I could never explain 
so people could understand. They 
will, however, when they get here, as 
they all will some day. But if you 
only understood the power of light 
you would accomplish wonders. 

How little we appreciate God's 
wonderful hght. He has given us 
our brains to use and if we develop 
them sufficiently there are very few 
of earth's mysterious secrets we could 
not make ours. 

Wells' knowledge of light was 
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more than any of the scientists could 
boast of, He, among other things, 
had devoted a real sincere interest in 
colored lights which helped him now. 
He realized the code messages were 
being taken by some unusual means. 
It seemed to be the only way the 
messages could have been lost. The 
officials were extremely careful who 
sent them. Only the most responsible 
people had anything to do with them. 
Could foreign science have found 
something the others knew nothing 
about? 

Wells knew a Madame Unger who 
lived in Hungary had discovered 
many things regarding light rays. 
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She used a queer method other scien- 
tists knew little about. They spoke 
of her as a genius light expeH. Wells 
knew her reputation well, so knew she 
was quite capable of any new dis- 
covery, j 

About this time papers in Ger- 
many began to print thoughts of 
prominent men when they had only 
just decided to do the things them- 
selves and had not expressed their 
thoughts to anyone. They only 
seemed to print the thoughts, how- 
ever, which pertained to the armistice 
plans. 

This was alarming and it was de- 
cidedly up to someone to find the rea- 
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son. They seemed to know secrets the 
officials themselves only just thought 
of. Wells was a bit puzzled by this 
new turn the affair had taken. High 
officials assured him the dread of this 
thing, understanding every thought 
was placing the Allies in a very awk- 
ward position. Surely Wells could 
do something. 

He assured them they probably 
would not believe his theoiy even 
though they would realize there was 
no other solution to the mystery. 
Sometimes Wells could imagine a 
very proper man's thought greatly 
surprising whoever invented the in- 
strument or whatever it was which 
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took the thought from his mind when 
least expected. 

Laughable, indeed, it would be to 
know what the average person thinks 
about. 

Wells started work in earnest. He 
knew something must be done. First 
he tried several different kinds of 
lights for his telescope. He used first 
one color, then another, but he 
could always see the white light — that 
was the important factor. Just 
imagine if you can, red rays hot 
enough to burn a concrete building 
in one second. Just think of the 
power the red ray has. 

The tiny light we see is but a f rac- 
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tion of what really exists. You have 
not the slightest conception of what 
I am trying to explain. 

When a person enters the astral 
world he is dazed by its splendor. 
Witness the earth from the astral 
world and it appears the greatest ball 
of darkness imaginable. Mysterious 
as this may seem, I know the earth is 
the darkest of all planets. Oh, the 
splendor of the astral world you 
will never understand until you 
are here. Never dread passing 
on. When you feel your time has 
come, be the hajjpiest of mortals. 
Can't tell you more because it is 
forbidden. 

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Mighty few will understand what 
I have said. The sad part is they 
cannot seem to appreciate it. 

Well, to resume our story. 

Wells tried to discover what bear- 
ing the red ray could have on the 
mystery. He studied the light for 
weeks before the true meaning 
seemed to dawn on him. Then all at 
once he understood. But how to con- 
vince anyone else seemed an utter 
impossibility. What to do when the 
officials demanded an explanation 
was a problem. How could he tell 
them someone had invented a light 
powerful enough to take their very 
thoughts from their minds. Also the 
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code messages from the ether when 
they left the wireless. 

These were the facts, however, and 
the knowledge really made him afraid 
for the world. The question was how 
was it done. Wells could not explain 
that even though he knew it was some 
kind of an instrument. He did not 
know just what it was. 

Just think every thought known. 
Some people would certainly find it 
necessary to change their manner of 
living. Mighty few could stand so 
severe a test. I should not care to 
have even mine known at times. 

Wells told how he had discovered 
the mysterious light and people im- 
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mediately pronounced him quite mad. 
Just as people naturally would when 
they could not understand. Every 
time anyone dares to attempt giving 
the world any idea which their small 
minds have difficulty in grasping, 
how they are forced to suffer. How 
advanced thinkers always suffer, and 
all because they do not belong to the 
earth but are here to be of service to 
stupid humanity, who never under- 
stands. 

Wells was no exception. The 
Allies decided, however, to scare 
Germany. They sent word every 
code message they failed to receive 
would make things that much worse 
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for Germany. The German officials 
decided to waste no time finding who 
might secretly steal the codes. The 
authorities would never have known 
had Madame Unger not understood 
her responsibility to the world. 

Being a woman of principle, she 
told the authorities she had invented 
this light, which was the only one in 
the world. She assured them slie 
thought the Germans were not to be 
trusted where Austria was concerned 
and had worked for the past four 
years on a light, which could take 
their very thoughts from them. She 
went so far as to say they were under 
constant surveillance. She used this 
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means to be positive Austria gave 
only the portion allotted her by the 
Allied countries. She was earnest in 
the extreme. 

Knowing her reputation, the au- 
thorities believed her, but were curi- 
ous to see for themselves. She kindly 
offered to receive them and give a 
demonstration of its power. The 
authorities were a bit afraid of the 
light. But curiosity was stronger 
than fear, so the next day found his 
former Majesty Hindenburg on his 
way to see Madame linger, accom- 
panied by minor celebrities. 

The light was on top of a building 
in Prague. The building was the 
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largest in the city. So when I tell you 
the light was as large as the whole 
building you can imagine its size. 
Just to see it was wonderfully im- 
pressive. Little wonder I had de- 
cided difficulty explaining God's 
light. Even this requires the greatest 
imagination to comprehend. 

This world is just beginning to 
read Heaven's secrets. Just when 
people will understand is a problem; 
so it will be difficult to describe this 
light. However, the red light was 
the main light which took the codes 
from the ether. This was very much 
larger than the white one. It was 
made of separate lights put several 
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layers over and over on a big piece 
of red glass. When this was finished 
it looked like a big red sun which 
you have seen often on a perfect 
Summer evening. I can't seem to 
find words to describe how it was put 
together. The first layer seemed to 
be transparent. The others were 
made to be magnetic. Consequently 
the messages were recorded on the 
transparent layer of glass by means 
of light rays. The codes were easily 
interpreted by knowledge of mathe- 
matics. 

Everything revolves around the 
master numbers. The supreme num- 
ber is nine. Everything revolves 
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around it. Nine is the master num- 
ber because it is always at the end 
of every column. 

The red light could bring by the 
magnetic rays anything sent through 
the ether. Just imagine the thought 
required to invent such a light. 

The magnetic ray worked only 
when the sun ray was very brilliant. 
Little was accomplished at other 
times, so when this was a fact beyond 
doubt Madame linger decided to 
invent some method of reading the 
thoughts of those who sent the codes. 

The white light was just electrical 
vibrations which reached out its arms 
to every corner of the globe. The 
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constant vibration took the very light 
from the earth and people wondered 
why the days seemed so cloudy. 
Where had the sun gone? They 
thought the war was responsible, but 
little did they dream of the truth. 
The white light was made of pure 
crystal and registered thoughts by 
means almost too peculiar to explain. 

However, I will explain. Perhaps 
you will be interested. 

Madame linger held a piece of 
crystal in her hand one day to admire 
the perfect clearness of the stone. She 
found she was able to read the 
thoughts of those around her. When 
people see crystal gazers bear in mind 

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they can without doubt read your 
mind. Madame Unger knew if she 
could invent a crystal light she would 
be able to take thoughts from any dis- 
tance because they vibrate all through 
the universe. Hot waves of elec- 
tricity send them. So after much dif- 
ficulty she found a piece of crystal 
large enough to make a huge light. 
This was the tiny white light Wells 
always saw. The very air leaves you 
with the knowledge there must be a 
terrific amount of surplus electricity 
in the ether. With that knowledge 
they could use electricity. (Here 
are the facts, for since I lived on 
earth they have discovered very few 
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new means for the use of electri- 
city.) 

You could go to Europe in one day 
if someone could invent a propeller 
made to run by electricity. 

When electrical autos are used 
(Katherine, you will always be in 
court then) we can go five hundred 
miles an hour if we are allowed. 

In the future you will have aero- 
planes which will go even faster than 
this. They will probably be the 
means by which you will go to 
Europe in one day. This is a present 
possibility, not away in the future. 
Electricity will be taken directly 
from the ether, not by means of power 
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plants. Consequently, there will be 
no limit to what we can do with it. 
Also electricity when people have 
reached a higher stage of knowledge 
will cure all disease. 

The thoughts have a great deal 
to do with health. People little real- 
ize how a wricked thought hurts not 
only themselves but every single one 
in the whole universe. So we know 
thoughts are like the sun rays for 
every soul is affected by them. If, 
however, we live on a high plane of 
thought low thoughts do not reach us 
in the same way. When people put 
httle value on thoughts it is decided 
ignorance and a great pity. 
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Thoughts come principally from 
the other world. You think they are 
yours, but you reach them only be- 
cause you have the capacity for 
receiving them. It depends entirely 
how you develop yourself. If you 
live only for the world and the things 
pertaining to earth you only think 
and receive material thoughts. When 
you seek the higher knowledge you 
begin to receive the thoughts of the 
people on the higher planes, and un- 
less you wish to develop you never 
will. This is the difference between 
your world and ours. 

We are at God's mercy and 
controlled by Him entirely. You 
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can by using will-power reach for 
higher things. Earth is the only- 
stage in existence we have that 
privilege. 

Make use of every moment. We 
do not suffer bodily pain, but the 
remorse felt when we realize what an 
opportunity we had to develop and 
wasted is dreadful. I am speaking 
from experience. Don't waste your 
life. Get as far as possible before 
you pass on. We, however, make you 
see many things and you give your- 
self credit for the ideas. Just aim 
high in thought and we will do the 
rest. 

However, to get back to the crystal 
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light : Madame Unger put the light in 
the sun ray for she knew then it 
would attract the thoughts. To tnow 
whose thoughts they were was the 
prohlem. Sometimes the crystal 
light would show a perfect picture of 
the people speaking, but other times 
it was very cloudy and not possible to 
see who was speaking. So she in- 
vented another way to tell. 

Tell the world this is positively a 
fact. It can be done and the earth 
is the only planet which does not 
know how sun rays can manage 
through electrical vibration to regis- 
ter every thought. 

But Madame Unger, knowing the 
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value of vibration, held the secret. 
The difficulty was to know how to 
read it, and when she first began to 
experiment it seemed utterly impos- 
sible. Suddenly it became quite 
clear. The thoughts could be trans- 
ferred from the mind to her by sun 
rays and vibrations and she could 
even tell who was speaking. The way 
she could tell was she had known 
many of these people personally be- 
fore the war. People will say this is 
impossible and ridiculous, but it is an 
absolute fact and the earth will know 
too some day. 

The authorities were amazed by the 
facts they saw. As I read thoughts 
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of people myself, I can understand 
Madame Unger's surprise when Hin- 
denburg decided he would offer her 
any amount of money if she would 
reveal her secret knowledge to him. 
He suggested this to her and simply 
could not grasp the fact it was im- 
possible to teach a person who had 
never even thought of such things 
before. He went away feeling very 
disappointed indeed. 

When the news spread to England 
the officials gave Wells every possible 
credit. When people discovered he 
found the light was the means by 
which the code messages were taken 
they show^ered every praise on him. 
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He decided, however, to see this light 
himself. The following month found 
him in Prague, reluctant to ask per- 
mission to see it. He disliked all 
Austrians and knew they probably 
had no particular love for any Eng- 
lishman just at this particular time. 
Even so wonderful a person as 
Madame Unger must probably have 
decided prejudice against an Eng- 
lander. 

The way was made clear, however, 
by the lady herself, who read in his 
thoughts the longing to see such won- 
ders as she had discovered. He went 
to call next day by special invita- 
tion and was cordially received by 
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Madame linger. Since they were 
both scientists they had much in com- 
mon and Wells found her a charming 
hostess. Madame linger was first a 
woman, then a scientist and also an 
unusually pretty woman. Wells 
thought it strange she had never 
found anyone she cared to marry. In 
fact, she never had married, but to 
please her mother had taken the 
privilege of calling herself Madame. 
It saved explanations. 

In some ways, even he found her 
desirable. He ceased reflections and 
asked if he might see the light. 

"Just what made you know a per- 
son might find a way to take the sun- 
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rays and use them in this manner?" 
asked Wells. 

Madame linger looked at him a 
few seconds and realized he really 
was in earnest. Surely so progres- 
sive a scientist would know, but he 
did not seem to. 

''Mr. Wells, don't you believe in 
God?" she asked. "Surely, if you do, 
you could never ask such a question. 
When I wish to find the sun's secrets 
I pray many hours every day. 
Should I wish to discover any secrets 
the earth holds, I would just eulo- 
gize the light. God is Light. He 
always answers my prayers. The 
people who never pray very seldom 
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rise to any heights. Therefore I 
almost wonder at your question." 

She looked at him in amazement. 
How had he discovered anything? 

When she worked she had God 
with her. Therefore everything was 
possible. 

Wells was much impressed with 
her. She certainly was remarkable 
— ^just to have the friendship of a 
woman like that was an incentive. 
Most women bored him beyond 
words. He had married a terribly 
frivolous lady when quite young and 
lived unhappy ever after. People 
who knew them were sorry for him. 
He seemed so utterly out of her 
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small world. The fault was not en- 
tirely hers for she belonged to a 
different sphere, and was just as un- 
happy as he was. They had a griev- 
ance against each other most of the 
time. 

Madame Unger seemed very won- 
derful in comparison. When he saw 
her light, knowing the difficulties she 
had surmounted to accomplish such 
a marvel in science, his admiration 
was increased a hundredfold. Words 
failed to express what he as a scientist 
thought of the lights. He was about 
to go when Mme, Unger knowing his 
thoughts said: 

"Mr. Wells, I would be very happy 
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to receive you any time you care to 
honor me by your presence. If my 
friendship can make life any fuller 
for you, the pleasure will be mine." 

He thanked her for the kindness he 
had received and the lesson she 
taught him was engraved on his 
memory. 

When she said God was the only 
means through which we ever dis- 
covered earth's secrets, she told him 
the most remarkable truth, and when 
scientists reaHze this, there will be 
secrets of the elements discovered 
we have not the slightest idea could 
be thought of, much less accom- 
plished. When will people begin to 
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wake up? The war has helped but 
it is not sufficient. It looks as 
though we need another lesson more 
severe than the war to make us 
realize. 

However, this is the day of God 
and people will either listen to Him 
or take the consequences. Little do 
you know the wonderful day in which 
you are living. Just to live to-day 
is reason to be eternally grateful. 
Kneel down and give praise that you 
are living in the most wonderful time 
this world will ever pass through, and 
the people of this century will never 
realize this. 

When Wells left Prague he felt 
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life was good after all. It had a new 
meaning for him. When he reached 
England he read how the countries 
were trying to work out some plan by 
which future wars would be made im- 
possible. 

This was the true spirit. Realize 
the needless suffering humanity 
would be spared could the nations 
consolidate to prevent just such a 
cataclysm as the world had just 
passed through. Realize the needless 
angry thoughts sent all through the 
universe. The energy expended 
which might have been used in a con- 
structive way. The lives lost to this 
planet when they were so necessary 
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for the development of the earth. 
All this could be avoided in the future 
if people had reached the stage of 
knowledge he sincerely hoped they 
had. The big issue was, had they 
or had they not, because it is the only 
hope the world has to continue living 
in the universe. God has spoken: it 
is His command. We must put 
country aside and belong to the whole 
world. We must put race prejudice 
from our minds. We are all brothers. 
The League of Nations will be estab- 
lished whether we wish it or not 
because God has promised in this day 
we would see the beginning of the 
Brotherhood of Man on earth and 
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the League of Nations is the first 
step. 

Men are known to be the cruelest 
of any species. This war has been 
proof of that. They have, however, 
the abiUty to rise as high as their souls 
are capable of developing. That is 
the difference between man and ani- 
mal. One can never rise above the 
animal stage, the other has the ability 
if he is truly God's child. We will 
only realize this when people have 
lived in the day of the Brotherhood 
of Man. 

Wells had not forgotten the 
brother he lost in the Battle of the 
Marne. How he had dishked the 
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idea of killing his fellow beings! 
Recently Wells had met a young 
Lieutenant who had been with him 
in those last hours and had realized 
the anguish he felt in the knowledge 
he had personally taken so many 
lives. 

Wells, realizing his fine nature, 
could understand. Here was a boy 
trained not to be a murderer but to 
live his life with the desire to uplift 
humanity, not to be the means of 
sending some soul into the Great 
Beyond long before he was ready. 
Wells thought probably there were 
thousands more who felt just the 
same and yet they were compelled to 
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do what the world thought was neces- 
sary. Of course, Wells knew this 
war was going to benefit the world 
eventually and was part of God's 
plan to bring the nations together. 

It is not possible to-day to be an 
isolated nation. When the world was 
younger this plan was quite all right, 
but we cannot live to-day in a past 
cycle. We must look forward not 
backward as some people insist upon 
doing. So the nations must establish 
some plan. Realize how the world 
has progressed in the question of 
transportation from one country to 
another. In the past centuries won- 
ders have been accomplished in this 
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way, but we little realize how infi- 
nitely much more will be made pos- 
sible in the next few hundred years. 
Where we now use boats for trans- 
portation in the future we will use 
the aeroplane. 

I just make these statements to 
give you the reason why the world 
will in the future be even closer than 
it is now. Knowledge will be in- 
creased in a way people little dream 
of. We will have a Utopia right here 
on earth. Many will say this is far 
fetched, to predict a League of Na- 
tions could be the means of accom- 
plishing such wonders, but without it 
the world can never even exist. How 
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I hope you will realize what this 
really means. The world will be 
stripped if you cannot. For, as I 
say, God has spoken. This is His 
mighty command. He has heen more 
than patient. Since the time of 
Christ He has pleaded. Humanity 
has been deaf to all pleadings. 

Well, it would certainly be the 
beginning of a wonderful new world, 
and America was the logical nation 
to take the lead. She was made up 
of all nationalities in the first place, 
of people who must have been dis- 
satisfied with their own countries, 
and consequently were in a better 
position to see where their countries 
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might be wrong. Americans may 
feel they belong to the whole world 
because they are made up of all na- 
tions. Therefore God chose America 
to be the leader, and if you can only 
realize what honor has been con- 
ferred upon you, America will be 
the foremost nation of the world and 
greatly blessed. 

When you hear people say we 
have nothing to do with Europe's 
affairs, what small minds they must 
have. Do you not live on the same 
planet? Are you not made of the 
same clay? Have you not the same 
capacity for developing your souls? 
Can you say then Europe's affairs 
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do not concern you? You went to 
her rescue in war, you must help her 
now, and it should be in the spirit 
of willing sacrifice. 

Wells saw now as he never saw 
before how badly the world needed 
a true Brotherhood of Man spirit. 
The reason knowledge would be in- 
creased was also very plain. 

When people had a real interest 
in whether their fellow beings pro- 
gressed or just managed to exist, 
they would see every person would 
have a fair chance. In America the 
foreigner would be compelled to 
learn the language of the country. 
And Europeans would be taught 
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some one language whereby they 
could all understand one another. 

What a necessary thing this was. 
Why had we never even thought of 
this before? Why, because the time 
was not ready. This world must re- 
member it is just one small planet 
in the universe. And God controls 
everything. 

How dare you think you can do 
as you please! 

Well, you have defied God in the 
past, but now He has taken your 
affairs in hand, and does not in- 
tend speaking in gentle tones any 
longer. This is very apparent to 
every other planet but the earth. 
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They never seem to realize anything 
until it is thrust upon them. Then 
they wonder why God has deserted 
them. Oh, foolish earth! He only 
knows punishment seems the only 
weapon to bring you to your senses. 
It seems to be the only way He can 
get your ear. Why are you so stupid? 
Wells wondered just when hu- 
manity would realize it had had its 
own way as long as it was going to 
be allowed and now they would be 
forced to obey the Great Com- 
mander. Would they choose to do 
His will of their own accord or would 
it be necessary to wipe them from 
the earth? At any rate, God had 
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spoken. Humanity could take its 
choice. 

Wells shuddered when he thought 
of the responsibility held by the com- 
paratively few men at the head of the 
various nations. When he read how 
they eulogized America he wondered 
if she realized the privilege of taking 
the lead in the world's affairs. But 
Wells thought when he was assured 
of Madame Unger's friendship and 
his new belief in God, life was cer- 
tainly a privilege after all. 



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